Benefits of Community Service Essay

I do not agree with making national service mandatory for all adults between the ages of 18 and 30 years of age. Although people would be payed enough to cover their basic living expenses while they’re doing mandatory service, and the service could have many positive personal benifits, making community service mandatory is unacceptable for several reasons. First, mandatory volunteer service is a contradiction in terms. How can it be voluntary if it’s mandatory? That just doesn’t make sense. People would not be doing good deeds because it’s the right thing to do, they would be doing it because they have to. And forcing people to do good deeds could lead to resentment rather than kindness. In addition, a mandatory national service program…

Community Service is a rewarding opportunity for anyone to be involved in the community. Seniors in high school should participate in community service. Community services is not a job, but a way of getting involved in the community and helping out at local businesses, non-profit organizations, etc. Community service is not limited to a specific area, so any student can go volunteer according to what suits them best. Community service need to be implemented for high school seniors. Seniors…

Service is important to me because it allows for growth in a person’s selflessness like no other action can. In this country, it is extremely easy for a person to turn a blind I to suffering and need, which is unacceptable. A few years ago I adopted the mentality that my actions and achievements are not for myself but for the betterment of the community around me. With that being said, it’s important to me to give back and assist the community in as many ways at possible. Service creates the…

For me, the best benefit has been the people I have met and the friends that I have made that will be my friends forever! But I have also learned a lot by being a Girl Scout and had the chance to do things that I would not have had the chance to do if I wasn’t a Girl Scout. We get to go camping, canoeing, and do cool things like archery. From cookie sales, we learn about businesses, selling and how to talk to people. We learn about setting goals, and budgeting. With camping, we have learned…

question my role in service learning and at the place where I volunteer. The first few themes for this quarter talked about the motivations for service and self-awareness of our social location. Especially, the reading by Johnson, motivates me to think about the privileges and power that I have over the other people, and how I could use that privilege to help people. I would say, before these readings, I knew about my position but was not aware of the power that I had in being a part of the…

It allows the associates who partake in Depot Day, to take pride in the fact that they are assisting in their local community and making a difference. The service’s provided by Office Depot allows the customer sound technological advice rather than a sales pitch. Many times just taking the time to sit and explain how some of the new technology features work, allows the customer to better relate to the product and become more open to technology rather than to avoid it. Take for instance the time…

very important to our society. It helps people in need and makes the person volunteering feel good about themselves too. Even though you don’t get paid there are several other benefits to teen volunteering. Throughout the world many teens have been volunteering their time and energy to different causes. For example volunteering at a shelter of some sort, donating food to a food drive, tutoring or helping people with school work. Even in CMR there is plenty of teen volunteering going on like the…

The answer is not to automatically incarcerate and teach juvenile offenders a lesson. “But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?” (John 3:17, NIV). There are alternatives that successfully work with the youth to address the offense, outside of court proceedings. Diversion is an alternative method of programs, procedures and structures used to avoid judicial proceedings and a criminal record with youth…

myself on my diversified involvement in my school and community, diligence in work, and dedication to the future of agriculture. Education holds the initial key to success, so I strive to achieve the best in school. Currently, I hold a top ten spot in my graduating class and maintain a 3.9 GPA, all while pushing myself by pursuing rigorous courses. This devotion to my education qualified me for a position in my high school’s National Honor…

A discourse community is something that I have been thankful to be apart of through out my high school career, and to this day. The Washington High School Soccer team all shares a common goal of wanting to win a West Virginia State Championship, and continue to be successful through out life, sharing means of communication through social media and email. During my upper classman of high school I got chance to be apart of family that was all held together by something that meant more than just a…